[A version of this post appeared in TechCrunch’s Robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] The last time I’d spoken with the Nvidia at any length about robotics was also the last time we featured Claire Delaunay on stage at our Sessions event. That was a while ago. She left the company last July to work with startups and do investing. In fact, she returned to the TechCrunch stage at Disrupt two weeks back to discuss her work as a board advisor for the ag tech firm Farm-ng. Not that Nvidia is desperate for positive reinforcement after its last several earnings reports, but it warrants pointing out how well the company’s robotics strategy has paid off in recent years. Nvidia pumped a lot into the category at a time when mainstreaming robotics beyond manufacturing still seemed like a pipe dream for many. April marks a decade since the launch of the TK1. Nvidia  described the offering thusly at the time, “Jetson TK1 brings the capabilities of Tegra K1 to developers in a compact, low-power platform that makes …

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